Leadership and participation in any organization tends to follow certain patterns; patterns that we can find in our mythic literature, folk stories, fables, even in our collective dreams. Recognition of these patterns allows leaders to minimize the times they leave a meeting or event wondering, “what the hell just happened.”
Exploring familiar patterns and successful responses allows us to avoid reinventing the wheel of torture that sometimes seems to characterize any volunteer work. We will explore how our role and the roles of those we lead often follow archetypal patterns. Being able to recognize those patterns allows us to respond creatively and effectively. We explore our shadow issues and how they can have a destructive impact on work for which we share.
How you will benefit from this presentation:
Being able to recognize conscious and unconscious dynamics in leadership allows us to conceptualize what happens in organizations in different and creative ways while giving us some suggestions as to how we might respond to common challenges.
How this presentation will arouse you:
This will be discussion that uses examples from mythic literature etc to illustrate what happens in organizations. It will be an illustrated lecture and will use artistic impression of mythology….they tend to be hot. For example when we talk about being a narcissistic jerk….Narcissus is nekkid. Plus we will talk about sex a lot..
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About the presenter:
Steve Ganzell is the Chair of the Los Angeles Leather Coalition, The Vice President of Administration for Christopher Street West (the folks who produce LA Pride) and a member of Avatar. Coming from a professional background in the study of group dynamics and process, he approaches his community work from a perspective that tries to include both the conscious and unconscious as a part of both leadership and participation. He knew he was kinky when he was a boy scout and got to play with leather and learn all those knots. He finds that he now belongs to organizations that are a LOT more accepting of what he wanted to do with those knots that the boy scouts were. He always finds it odd to write about himself in the third person.